The world's shift to clean energy is driving huge demand for critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt and copper.

Lithium's fate is increasingly decided in capitals: the Pentagon wants 16,000 tonnes at prices below today's market, Beijing ...

Minerals are a hot topic in 2026. Lithium, the crucial ingredient in batteries that power smartphones and electric vehicles, is in particular demand. While most of the discussion has been around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing water scarcity could hamper the expansion of lithium mining in the U.S., deepening its reliance on foreign imports over ...

Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer ...

A new report has revealed that China's mining company, Zijin has started exporting lithium concentrate from its Manono ...

Rio Tinto expects its lithium business to grow faster than its copper, iron ore and other divisions as it works to triple production by 2028 for the electric vehicle and battery storage markets, an ...

New projects and foreign-backed mines are reshaping Zimbabwe’s lithium sector, with uneven local gains.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern Appalachians harbor roughly 900,000 metric tons of lithium resources, according to USGS estimates. Western Maine ...

Rio Tinto's recent acquisition of Arcadium gave it one of the largest lithium resource bases globally, he says. That buy ...

There are more than 60 ASX-listed lithium shares in the materials sector, ranging from diversified miners and explorers to ...